---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning environmental law."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning environmental law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1267"
citation: "Indiana HB 1267 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSION", "WATER generally", "WATER", "Availability and Quality of Drinking Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Edmond Soliday", "James Merritt"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-11"
last_action: "2018-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05b8e2eb-7e39-4dd0-8580-d56934b6fb95"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1267"
source_hash: "42bc1d8fb4bc1a596584b8929d091b2d92e2ca01eae5ddbd11222fb714b7e5f5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# Indiana HB 1267 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning environmental law.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1267/versions/hb1267.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1267/versions/hb1267.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1267/versions/hb1267.04.coms)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1267/versions/hb1267.02.comh)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1267/versions/hb1267.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1267 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1267 - Soliday - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Edmond Soliday — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Carey Hamilton — coauthor (person)
- David Ober — coauthor (person)
- Eric Koch — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Stoops — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Glick — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Brown — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-11** Coauthored by Representatives Brown T and Ober
- **2018-01-11** Authored by Representative Soliday
- **2018-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Representative Hamilton added as coauthor
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Amendment #3 (Soliday) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-29** Amendment #1 (Pierce) prevailed; Roll Call 69: yeas 93, nays 0 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-29** Amendment #2 (Porter) motion withdrawn `amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Senate sponsors: Senators Charbonneau and Merritt
- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 96: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-31** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-22** Senator Koch added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Senator Niezgodski removed as cosponsor
- **2018-02-27** Senator Glick added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-27** Senator Stoops added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 272: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-05** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-07** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** House conferees appointed: Soliday and Stemler
- **2018-03-07** House advisors appointed: Ober, Brown T and Hamilton
- **2018-03-07** Senate conferees appointed: Charbonneau and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2018-03-07** Senate advisors appointed: Merritt, Stoops, Koch and Bohacek
- **2018-03-14** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 411: yeas 97, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-21** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-22** Public Law 196
- **2018-03-22** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05b8e2eb-7e39-4dd0-8580-d56934b6fb95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).